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Keep the siller; and for civility, your sister sall hae sic as I can bestow; but I hope you'll think better on it, and rap an oath for her deil a hair ill there is in it, if ye are rapping again the crown.
Sic transit gloria German mundi. "There are two new guests arriving this afternoon," said the manager of the pension, placing a chair for me at the breakfast table. "I have only received the letter acquainting me with the fact this morning.
"No, no, Peter," and Gourlay gripped him by the shoulder as he turned back to his work "no, no; I have no right to keep you. Never mind about the money; you deserve something, going so suddenly after sic a long service. It's just a bit present to mind you o' to mind you o' " he broke suddenly and scowled across the garden.
"Please, sir, may I speak?" cried Nestie, as he saw the preparations for Peter's punishment and could not contain himself. "Were you in this job, too, Nestie? You didn't tell me that there were two at puir Robert, Bailie; if Nestie got his hand on your son, he's sic a veeciously inclined character that it's a wonder Robert's leevin. "Now, Bailie, we'll conduct a judeecial investigation.
'More years than I have any delight to reckon, have past since you and I saw one another; of this, however, there is no reason for making any reprehensory complaint Sic fata ferunt . But methinks there might pass some small interchange of regard between us. If you say, that I ought to have written, I now write; and I write to tell you, that I have much kindness for you and Mrs.
"Come, Aggie," he said abruptly, "I want to ken what for Grizzie was in sic a terror aboot her pock last nicht. I'm thinkin' I hae a richt to ken." "I wish ye wadna speir," returned Aggie, after but a moment's pause. "Aggie," said Cosmo, "gien ye tell me it's nane o' my business, I winna speir again."
All I can say is that if the earl was saft enough to do sic a thing out of fondness for her, it's time he was married on her, so that he may come to his senses again.
"But what sort of handwriting was it?" asked I, almost disregarding the welcome coin. "Ou, then aiblins a man's, aiblins a maid's. He was no chirographosophic himsel an' he had na curiosity anent ony sic passage o' aristocratic romance." "But what was the postmark of the letter?" "Why for suld I speired?
"He is nae sic thing as mayor till ten o' the clock and till he cooms here for the crackin wi' yon corbies!" declared the old paymaster, pointing derogatory penstock through the wicket at "the crows" who were ranged along the settees. Rellihan shook his head. "Well, at any rate, go hunt him up," commanded His Excellency.
He rose, shouted "Sic semper tyrannis," the motto of Virginia, disappeared behind the scenes, mounted a horse that was in waiting at the stage door, and rode away. This was John Wilkes Booth, brother of a famous actor then playing "Hamlet" in Boston. He was an actor too, and an athletic and daring youth.
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